Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 2311 - 2320 of 23186

Howard Cannon's visit to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio with Major General R. G. Ruegg: photographic print

Date

1969-12-18

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Air Force Photo Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio"

Image

Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Culver City, California, June 16, 1946

Date

1946-06-16

Description

Description given with photo: "Hull of "Hercules" Starts Journey to Assembly Dock, Culver City, Calif. - The 220-foot-long fuselage of Howard Hughes' gigantic airplane crawls down the highway on truck dollies after leaving the Culver City, Calif., plant. the hull is on its way to the graving dock for assembly at Terminal Island, Calif., 28 miles away. Note size of man on top of hull. NY EUR CAN. Credit (ACME) 6/16/46"

Image

Photograph of Howard Hughes after completing his Round The World flight, New York, July 15, 1938

Date

1938-07-15

Description

Text typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes strutting across a New York hotel lobby after completing a Round The World flight. 7-15-38. (Press Association)."

Image

Photograph of Howard Hughes in the XF-11, after his successful test flight, April 5, 1947

Date

1947-04-05

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES TEST-PILOTS SECOND XF-11. CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5. Preparatory to making its first flight test today, Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, is shown in the cockpit of the second XF-11 sister ship to the plane in which he almost lost his life in an accident last July 7. Hughes designed and built the ship, one of the world's fastest long-range reconnaissance planes for the Army Air forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers."

Image

Senators Howard Cannon and Alan Bible with Governor Grant Sawyer at Straza Industries groundbreaking ceremony at McCarran Airfield, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1961-10

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Las Vegas News Bureau - Las Vegas, Nevada Convention Center - Photographers Don English, Joe Buck, Jerry Abbott, Milt Palmer". Stamped on verso: "Southern Nevada Industrial Foundation, INC. 400 Stewart Ave. - P.O. Box 1688 Las Vegas, Nevada" Howard W. Cannon and Alan Bible (2nd and 3rd from left), Gov. Grant Sawyer (2nd from right)

Image